Thursday, September 20, 2007

Shocking. Positively shocking.

I love Bioshock, even though it scares my face off. Why this is when I am physically incapable of playing Resident Evil is a mystery. Perhaps because the combination of big guns and eerie powers makes you a bit handier in a fight than the relatively normal firearms in RE. It's also a much more action oriented game, meaning you only rarely have time to be scared rather than be in a constant state of absolute terror. Or possibly it's just because a large part of Bioshock revolves around killing children.

Anyway, it's good. It also helps that it's not intimidatingly hard (at least not so far) and is incredibly gorgeous - all art deco and snazzy water effects. Still very claustrophobic (it'll be interesting to see how the more open Halo 3 plays out). Trying to find a cloud in this silver lining, it is true that the vast majority of Xbox titles I have any interest in are shooters. In fact, leaving out sports and driving titles, you are left with practically nothing but. Which makes the imminent arrival of Mass Effect all that more tantalizing.

1 Comments:

Blogger Mark Clapham said...

Sounds good. Meanwhile, I've found this to help me get over that bomb disposal bit in Dead Rising:

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=6&cId=3152848#DR4.6

The motorbike, huh? Gotta try that out.

Mark

11:16 AM

 

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